Max Cassity is a PhD student in English. His studies encompass 20th and 21st Century American fiction, poetry, and digital media. He studies fictional representations of epidemic diseases in American and Global modern literature and digital narratives. His dissertation investigates how race and class difference have been incorporated into the discourse of disease and how structures of power mobilize the ideology of racialized disease to reinforce social hierarchies, isolate minority populations, and justify power over life and death in 20th-century U.S. society.
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January 2017
Messages of Power: Epidemic Disease and Metaphor (5 Jan. 2017)
Know Your Zombie: Understanding the Living Dead (12 Jan. 2017)
“Build that Wall!”: Studies in the 21st-Century Plague Zombie (19 Jan. 2017)
The Eco-Zombie: Using Biology to Imagine Zombies Beyond the Human (26 Jan. 2017)
February 2016
Don’t Eat the Flatware: Balancing Instruction and Interpretation in the Classroom (5 Feb. 2016)
Zen and the Art of the Course Description (19 Feb. 2016)
Adaptation Nation: Popular U.S. Film Originality 2010-2015 (26 Feb.2016)